Volume : III, Issue : X, October - 2013

Labour unrest in Gujarat– Case Study Subject Area– Management (Industrial Dispute)

Mrs. Shweta Patel, Ms. Darshita Mirani

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Labour plays a pivotal role in contributing to Indian economy. This Paper is conceived as study of ‘what’s happening to labour’ unrest in various Indian Industries. Labor force in India is the second largest in the world after China,1 Among them majority of the labor force in India is in the unorganized sector and only less than 10% workers are in the organized sector that comprises of government and other public and private registered companies2.According to “Indian national labour institute” 55 percent of the labour forces are on contract basis. Most Industries resort to contract labour survival in highly competitive environment. This further leads to labour unrest like strike, lock out, gherao, closure, layoff, and turnover3. This results into a conflict between Permanent workers and contract workers. This in turn affects over all productivity and some of the companies become less competitive in the market which in turns means less pay,less benefit, less facilities to workers resulting into a worker unrest. An attempt is made in this paper to find out the causes of labour unrest and suggest few remedies. Here, we take some companies example of Gujarat state which was facing similar problems due to labour unrest. According to Economic Survey Gujarat witnessed highest number of strikes and other forms of labour unrest on account of various financial and disciplinary issues. Day by day industrialization is increased, in Gujarat state. This industrialization has also given rise to increasing the employment opportunities in the state. According to the provisional result of the Annual Survey of Industries 2011, the total number of factories in the state increased by 36% to 21,200 in 2010–11 from 15,500 in 2009–10. About 1.3 lakh new jobs were created by these factories in this period4.

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Mrs. Shweta Patel, Ms. Darshita Mirani / Labour unrest in Gujarat- Case Study Subject Area- Management (Industrial Dispute) / Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.3, Issue.10 October 2013

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